Never Expect Quotes - Page 3

• We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Father, Real

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.61, CCEL

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• Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

  Kate Tempest

  Writing, Causes, Findings

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• Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Genius, Recognition, Crosses

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• We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

  Alexandre Dumas

  First Love, Joy, Firsts

  Alexandre Dumas (2015). “The Three Musketeers”, p.107, Penguin

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• I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Errors, Perfect

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist Papers”, p.523, Penguin

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• That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

  Gayle Forman

  Grieving, Competition

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• I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Reading, Glasses

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Different, Method

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• I never expect I would become a K-pop star.

  PSY

  Stars, Pops, Pop Stars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Fire, Flying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.1157, Macmillan

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• The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Moon, Thinking, Might

  Rodman Philbrick (2013). “The Last Book in the Universe”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

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• As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Phones, Nba, Phone Calls

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• One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way.

  Robert Greene

  Way, Critics, Behave

  Source: anny-gomes.com

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• I never expect a soldier to think.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thinking, Soldier

  'The Devil's Disciple' (1901) act 3

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• I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back.

  Mike Tyson

  Giving, Ems, Hey

  Interview with Earl Sweatshirt, genius.com.

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• Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

  Orson Welles

  Good Luck, Men, Thinking

  "Orson Welles: The Unfulfilled Promise" by Barbara Leaming, The New York Times, July 14, 1985.

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